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The foreign offices of British fiction
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The foreign offices of British fiction

Garrett Stewart
Modern language quarterly (Seattle), Vol.61(1), pp.181-206
03/01/2000
DOI: 10.1215/00267929-61-1-181

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Abstract

Stewart attempts to resuscitate the formalist mandate in the study of prose fiction and to test it out on one of those burgeoning subfields of cultural criticism, colonial and postcolonial literary studies, where such formalism, to judge from current practice, seems far from urgent when not downright suspect. The formalist imperative is to read, to read what is written as a form of meaning, both authorially designed and culturally inferred.
Deconstruction Fiction Literary criticism Prose

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